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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 21, 2013 | Fiction
Sweden's most controversial painting inspires this tale of a centuries-old cycle of love and tragedy. Hanging in Stockholm's Nationalmuseum, Carl Larsson's Midvinterblot (1915) tells the story of a king who is sacrificed by his people in order to end a famine. I...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on February 1, 2013
Sedgwick takes us backwards, first by sixty-year intervals and then by leaps of centuries, in seven short stories centering on a remote northern island and the potent, drug-laden flower that blooms there. Each story begins with love and ends with death, whether of young lovers, parents and children, or brothers and sisters. It's only in reading through all seven that we begin to ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013
Sedgwick takes us backwards through time in seven short stories set on a remote island. Each begins with love and ends with deat...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
